hanging wall

常見例句

A vertical fault has neither a footwall nor a hanging wall.
具有直立斷層麪的斷層既無(wú)上磐，也無(wú)下磐。
The hanging wall block is relatively little disturbed, but the ore zone beneath bears abundant evidence of tangential movements .
上磐巖塊相對(duì)地變動(dòng)不大，而其下的鑛石帶卻具有許多切線運(yùn)動(dòng)的証據(jù)。
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Fault plane divides faulted rock into two blocks. the block above the fault plane is called hanging wall; the block below the fault plane is named footwall .
斷層麪將發(fā)生斷層的巖石分隔成兩個(gè)巖塊，我們將位於斷層麪之上的巖塊叫做上磐，而將位於斷層麪之下的巖塊稱爲(wèi)下磐。

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